Well, it's nice to have a ~$2000 graphics card - all those who can afford that raise your hands (two or three out of tens of thousands).  That's not a very good general probability curve now is it?

One thing that I learned and learned well - STAY AWAY FROM M$ GRAPHIC DRIVERS FOREVER!!!!  How can I stress that more without using a 1000 pt font?  Yeah, you'll need the default one for VGA when upgrading drivers - that's about as far as it should ever go.  Any time, ever, that I've said 'Well, it's Microsoft validated therefore it must be better than the ones from the manufacturer' it was disaster, torture, catastrophe.  For NVidia, I use NVidia drivers from NVidia - period.  Whenever the driver selection popped up - use the M$ driver, it's better, newer, faster, guaranteed to work with Winduhs (try this kid, you'll feel gooooood) - I promptly click Cancel as fast as I can.  From what I've heard, that's the way to go with Vista (and has been the same on 98, 2000, XP).  Microsoft "Certified" Drivers are the quickest way to certifiable...

I suspect that for the time-being, Vista will be heaven for some users and hell for a greater percentage.  I'll stick with XP Pro and XP Pro x64 until the DRM is forced into the corner and performance can outpace what is currently experienced - thank ya very much, huh (pelvic thrust intentional). ;)  I didn't like when the RIAA had Napster ban me for having legal copies of Metallica CDs on my computer, wouldn't have like to install Sony's Rootkit, and will not be bullied into pulp - for my protection - by a Draconian DRM policy in my OS (fade to Pres. Bush - fear the terrorists, fear the terrorists, oh yeah, but act normally - while fearing the terrorists - we're protectin' ya by reading your email, recording your phone calls, racially profilin', checkin' ya out, and puttin' ya in prisons outta jury's prudence so that we can torture ya, yeah, that's the ticket).  One has to wonder who has more rights - corporate bloat greed or individuals.  You make the call.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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